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'It's extraordinary that one would have a police force that was so aligned with corporate interests.' Denton, a steely character of part-Jewish, part-Hungarian extraction, goes on: 'Jason Chen, one of our bloggers, had his house broken into by a police force close to Apple. 'It is strange,' Denton says, clearly measuring his words in the light of the ongoing legal argument. It was later revealed that Apple Inc sits on React's steering committee. The raid, in which Chen's computers were seized, was conducted by officers of the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (React), a taskforce set up a few years ago to deal with computer crime tied to Silicon Valley. Then, four days after Gizmodo posted the story, Chen and his wife returned home to find police in their apartment, investigating, they said, a possible criminal offence relating to the receipt of stolen property. Steve Jobs himself reportedly called Gawker executives to demand the phone's return, and there was a flurry of legal letters. Denton says: 'They have these incredible devices that everyone wants to buy and read about, and that gives them the power to be so controlling of their marketing.'īut for once, such control was smashed by a determined media outlet. It was an almost unheard-of blow for Apple, whose security is renowned. Gizmodo's editor, Jason Chen, and his team deconstructed the machine, analysed it, became convinced it was a genuine prototype, and posted articles about it. He contacted Apple helplines, but no one took him seriously, and eventually he went to Gizmodo and sold it to them for $5,000. The next day the phone wasn't working, but when its finder tinkered with it he found that its thin outer shell – in the guise of an old iPhone – peeled off to reveal a shiny square object unlike anything he had seen before. It was picked up by another drinker who took it home when nobody claimed it. Somehow he left the prototype of the next generation iPhone in the bar.

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It began on 18 March when Gray Powell, an Apple software engineer, was drinking in Redwood City, California, to celebrate his 27th birthday.

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The office is full of Macs and other Apple products.īut, over the past weeks, Denton has witnessed a different side to the Apple behemoth.

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I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection,' he says.

For a man who has faced the ire of the great Apple Corporation, he is steeped in Apple admiration.

He is playing last night's episode of John Stewart's Daily Show featuring the Apple v Gawker battle, on an iPad. We meet in his apartment near Gawker's SoHo offices.

The breach of Apple's legendary wall of security revealed a great deal about the state of new media in the US today.Īt the centre of the conflict stands Nick Denton, a British web entrepreneur who has injected his irreverent brand of journalism into the US media for eight years. It has been a David and Goliath confrontation set in motion by the audacious move by Gawker's technology arm, Gizmodo, to acquire a prototype of Apple's upcoming 4G iPhone and disclose its highly secret make up two months before its official launch. That Big Board figure is testimony to the extraordinary saga that has recently gripped the world of Gawker Media, bringing it head-to-head with one of the world's most powerful corporations and culminating in a late-night police raid backed by the threat of criminal prosecution. It has attracted a modest 2,032 visits over the past hour, but an astonishing 4,014,535 since it was first put up two weeks ago. But it's the article in fourth place that catches the eye – This Is Apple's Next iPhone. Second slot goes to Funeral Home Displays Shooting Victim, followed by Bigots Now Targeting Lesbian Teen's Graduation. The No 1 slot today is an item headlined The Washington Post Cannot Tell Obama From Malcolm X, which the board shows has received 3,725 visits in the past hour.

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Above the reception desk there's a flat-screen TV displaying automatically updated data about the network's traffic: Gawker's so-called Big Board lists the 10 posts across the Gawker Media empire that are at any moment attracting most reader attention. I t is late morning in the New York headquarters of Gawker Media, the network of 10 savvy and gossipy websites that between them act as irritant-in-chief to the US establishment.

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